VRScout

DECEMBER 3, 2017

Thanks to recent platforms such as Apple’s ARKit and hardware like Microsoft’s HoloLens headset, AR has been on the rise as of late with zero signs of slowing down anytime soon. However, when it comes to delivering truly high quality augmented experiences, the current options available to consumers and even developers are expensive and few.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Brought to life via a combination of motion capture technology and Unreal Engine, guests at both the party and the weekend event were able to view the digital model on a massive 8K Samsung monitor and interact with the character in real-time. It’s Disney’s highest-grossing animated movie ever, and it was made using a game engine.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

This week in XR hasn’t had any explosive news, but it was interesting nonetheless: in particular we had cool info on AR glasses, with some news from Kura, Lynx, and Samsung. Samsung AR glasses concept has been leaked. Popular Twitter leaker WalkingCat has leaked two trailer videos about two AR glasses by Samsung.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

Object tracking : Hyperion allows the Leap Motion Controller 2 camera to track AR Markers (also known as fiducial markers) enabling tracking of any object. But it is thanks to research projects like this that in the next years, we will arrive at having AR glasses we can wear every day.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

And this week I think we had many cool news that are worth a mention, so let’s dig immediately into them! Image by Epic Games). Sony invests $250M in Epic Games. Sony has announced that it has made a big investment of $250M in Epic Games through one of its subsidiaries. Rockstar is working on AAA VR open world game.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Many partner stores like Best Buy have already received hundreds of boxes and are ready to start selling the headset from tomorrow. Many people are getting ready to receive their new toy. Unreal Engine and Photoshop), as it happens in Google Docs when many people edit the same document at the same time. I love the internet.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 8, 2019

It is something that I say since the beginning of 2019 : nReal is one of the most interesting AR startups out there. The idea of nReal is producing the first consumer AR headset , that, when you wear it, you really look like wearing a pair of normal glasses. Upper view of the nReal AR glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Facebook already had full control of my Oculus and Facebook accounts, so it had already my XR data. That’s why Avi Bar-Zeev in a tweet on this topic talked about “the illusion of control” of our data : actually, Facebook already had it all. What other devices are so cheap, have the best games, a continuous stream of updates?

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Creating a game like Stardew Valley can seem like a daunting task, but with the right approach and tools, it is definitely possible. In this blog post, we will go over the key steps you need to take in order to create your own farming and life simulation game. And if you don’t have the go with the best mobile game development company.

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ARPost

JUNE 22, 2020

“We are proud to be delivering the technology that is pushing industrial training applications to their furthest reaches – even to space,” Varjo CEO and co-founder, Niko Eiden, said in a release shared with ARPost. Boeing also made the experience using 3D scans of the Starliner console on Unreal Engine. Building the Experience.

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ARVR

OCTOBER 6, 2021

How to Make an AR App?—?Tips, This is because AR is compatible with the devices we’ve been using for a long time?—?smartphones. In addition, AR offers practical everyday use, is considered less restrictive than VR, and does not distract the user from the real world. Let’s start by taking a look at how AR works.

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ARPost

JULY 13, 2022

If you’ve played any video games at all – particularly open-world RPGs – you know that getting NPCs right can be hard. So, if we’re going to have a metaverse for games, shopping, business, etc., There’s also a special panel of controls for experimental features including audible pauses and expressive movement.

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2018

Today Magic Leap has launched the Lumin SDK, the toolkit which allows developers to build AR experiences for Lumin OS, the operating system that powers the Magic Leap One headset. 6DOF hand controller (Totem) tracking. Use of Unreal Engine 4’s desktop and mobile forward rendering paths. Eye tracking. Gesture and hand tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The drama about Unity’s new pricing models has set the whole game development community on fire, while we had an unexpected leak about the Pico 5 and some updates on the Apple Vision Pro. There are some important pieces of news to know about and you are in the right place to read them! It’s been kind of a crazy week!

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

One-year price performance for MSFT, AAPL, GOOGL, SNE, and NVDA According to the latest report from Statista , the global augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) markets are rapidly growing and are forecast to reach a total of $72.8 It is clear that Apple working diligently to become a big player in the AR/VR space.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2023

You may wonder why this system is relevant for us XR people: well, Meta itself talks about AR applications for this system in the launch post. AR glasses may separate the various objects that compose an image they see with their cameras and so be able to detect what the user has around him/her. Impossible!)

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

Ok, enough with football… let’s get back to AR and VR…. The standalone headset still features passthrough AR/MR, XR2 chipset, dual 1600×1600 LCD panels running at 90Hz, Ultraleap hands tracking. It doesn’t have controllers (you just use your hands), but you can buy external controllers by Finch to use with it.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Three main eXtended Reality (XR) interaction toolkits/platforms are: ?? Unity Game Engine ?? Unreal Engine eXtended Reality (XR) Technology Platforms | Source: [link] How to Select Extended Reality (XR) Toolkit? ? Supported AR/VR devices ? Trending AR VR Articles: 1. AR Foundation ?—?AR Maturity of Toolkit

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ARVR

JANUARY 4, 2021

Concepts like loops, control-logic, OOP principles like inheritance, abstraction, encapsulation, etc should be at your fingertips before moving forward. Software Development Once you are through with programming, your thinking will automatically shift towards building stuff rather than practicing problems. Trending AR VR Articles: 1.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

The glasses are expected to run a new operating system, rOS (or reality OS), and Apple is exploring touch panels, voice activation, and head gestures as a means of control. He says that Apple AR glasses will come in 2021 and that he has seen them. Is it for a future AR/VR headset? Image by Epic Games).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

So, are you ready? HTC has finally revealed the price of the Vive Pro : it will cost $799 just to have the headset (no controller and no base stations, so you must already have a Vive 1 kit) and will be available for pre-orders since April, 5th. The controller too is very comfortable and does its job very well. .

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2020

Hi I’m Daniel Beauchamp, and I head up AR / VR for Shopify (not Spotify!). If you design games to be played on the tray table of a plane, you are also creating experiences for people with mobility issues who might not be able to jump around like in a normal BeatSaber session. A game where you throw your hand to solve puzzles.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Top news of the week (Image from Upload VR) Pico 5 leaks show a very ambitious product line The leaks on the Pico 5 are intensifying , which usually means that the device is going to be announced quite soon. Yes, it is less than the 5% of Unreal, but until yesterday we only paid per seat, not both per seat and per revenue sharing.

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Road to VR

JULY 29, 2019

OpenXR, a widely supported initiative which aims to streamline AR/VR development across headsets and platforms, has reached its 1.0 It’s a major milestone, according to Khronos Group which has overseen development of the standard by a consortium of many of the biggest names in the AR/VR sector. release today.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Today, ARWall, a virtual production product and services merchant, updated its augmented reality effects (ARFX) Pro Unreal Engine Plugin to streamline workflows for end-users incorporating immersive backdrops for media productions. New graphic options give a production team more control over the quality of a backdrop. New Features.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

While with other VR headsets like the Vive Focus Plus it is already possible to do some kind of augmented reality , this is the first standalone headset that can provide both good quality AR and VR on the same device. These are pretty cool, also because the Snapdragon XR 2 is much more powerful than the 835 mounted by the Oculus Quest.

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ARPost

JUNE 2, 2023

Magic Leap: Let’s Get to Work “The vision of AR that some legacy tech companies are promising is still years out, is not years or months or days out,” Magic Leap CEO Peggy Johnson said in her keynote. “The small team at Magic Leap has made something that many larger companies are still struggling to achieve.”

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ARVR

MAY 10, 2021

a Starter Pack (Dipping your toes into the world of AR development, with a little VR overlap by default) by Alexis Zerafa Are you interested in augmented reality development? Much like an oil painter needs their paints and turpentine, AR creators need a myriad of tools as well! What is Social AR? —?if XR Programs?—?a

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2016

As the publisher of Unreal Engine 4, Epic Games is at the forefront of developers creating new worlds in VR, and we recently sat down with the man driving their VR efforts: Nick Whiting, Epic’s Technical Director of VR/AR. VRSCOUT: Who are you and what do you do? . I oversee all things VR and AR for Epic Games.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

But for now, let me do a recap of the best news of the past week in AR and VR! This configuration is interesting because: 6 cameras in those positions allow for a very big tracking cone for the controllers ; The two front cameras are in the same position of the eyes and this will allow mixed reality applications using the SRWorks framework.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 25, 2022

The latest funding will be used to intensify R&D for AXIS , a wearable and game-oriented full-body motion capture solution. CEO of Refract Chng told TechCrunch that the solution they found out was to allow players to use their bodies as game controllers.

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Road to VR

MARCH 16, 2017

After years of making some of the most impressive VR tech demos of their time, Epic’s Robo Recall is not only the company’s first VR game proper, but a culmination of what the company has learned about VR game and engine design since the beginning. I’d also played the game from start to finish and felt inclined to agree.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The umbrella term that covers all of the various technologies that enhance our senses, whether they’re providing additional information about the actual world or creating totally unreal, virtually simulated worlds for us to experience. It includes Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR) technologies.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 19, 2021

Here you are some: Open XR: [link] UI Accessibility Plugin (Unity): [link] Set Color Deficiency Type (Unreal Engine): [link]. There are several communities of gamers willing to test games. I really like the organization Able Gamers Charity, they are a good resource.

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ARVR

MARCH 11, 2021

Whether is throwing, climbing, or shooting, we use the hands positional data along with along with inputs via the triggers and buttons to let the player interact with the game. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. The Possibility of AR on the Urban Space 2. The Exciting Applications of AR and VR in Automotive 4.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Snap, one of the world’s top camera software firms, has revealed major updates to its augmented reality (AR) platform, Snap Lens. Snap Lens studio incorporated Ray Tracing for developers in April last year to boost immersion and realism for AR content. This year’s instalment is set to take place on 19 April.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

We spoke about AR and VR for 2 hours and we were having so much fun that we could have gone on for other 2 hours without problems! If you want to watch the video of the recording, you can find it here: And now, let’s start speaking about the best AR/VR news of the week! Top news of the week. Image by Facebook).

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